What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire

This is based on an interaction in the comments to a previous blog post, Shut Up and Drum!
 
James said:
Fuck you, Tim. If you had any integrity at all, you would focus on helping and saving this precious human being who is right next to you. You’d adopt the [...]

Sunday morning early. A day off, a chance to sleep in, but I can’t. We’re here in NC, working on the new project, and I’m a jumble.
We shot for seven straight days.  Three hours or more each day. Plus two hours of driving. Plus setting up camera and lights and sound. Plus the hours of [...]

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“Let me show you what I can do,” he said, hesitantly, and yet with an obvious excitement. “There’s a music store right near here.” And with that we were off, following my daughter Kate and her friend Robert across town to the guitar store near the mall. Inside, Robert asked for a pair of sticks [...]

If I needed confirmation of the claim I’d made in an email to my daughter just yesterday morning that “I’m no longer a member of the culture in which you live,” I could not have asked for a better one than the new Star Trek movie, which Sally and I saw last night. I’m so [...]

I’m always searching for a bit of clarity about exactly why it is I’m here and what it is I’m “supposed” to be doing to help. Since finishing the doc, I have received little in the way of “marching orders”, at least so’s I’ve noticed. (Or maybe I just don’t like my orders?) And while [...]